Only part of your college education is to 'learn you stuff'. The other part is to expose you to crap you DON'T like...you know, kind of like the rest of life. The fact that someone has a BS in something means they're CAPABLE of learning, not that they've necessarily learned what they need for a job.
I can't say that I've ever actually applied my BS in Civil Engineering. But it DID get me in the door at a job that required general knowledge of how to solve problems. CE was BORING, but it did mean my first job out of college made $10k more than my MAX salary would have been without the paper.
My first reaction was negative...but upon further thought, a per mile tax would be the most fair way to PAY for that resource you're using.
What, did you think the road you drove to work on just showed up one morning?
This is just a transfer of the existing tax in a way it can't be avoided. Paying less tax because you get better gas mileage doesn't pay to maintain the infrastructure. Sooner or later you've gotta pay to play.
Why? Because we listened to customers, analysts, and business partners. We heard a clear message: "Yes, XP SP2 makes the situation better. We want more, sooner. We want security on top of the compatibility and extensibility IE gives us, and we want it on XP. Microsoft, show us your commitment."
I don't want Microsoft telling me every time something malicious does or does not happen. This comes after having the SECOND automatic update of my PC bring it to its knees. (I suspect AVG's virus scanner, but I canot be sure.)
I wake up to 'your machine failed to boot into normal mode...try again?' Spend 20 minutes looking at the 6 updates, remove two to no affect, remove AVG and have the system come back, only to have microsoft YELL "YOU MAY NOT BE SAFE! I CAN'T FIND A VIRUS SCANNER!"
Uh, no shit?
I don't know _who_ you're helping Microsoft, but you're sure not helping me.
What percentage of your user experience do you spend 'setting it right'? I don't WANT to spend 20% of my computer time telling my computer how to do this stuff. I USED to do that, I no longer wish to.
(This is not a rant, merely a description of what happened to me receintly:) 1. reboot computer - It'd hung running something the rhymes with Titborrent. 2. Login prompt -log in 3. Get a start button, click on it to start a browser 3a. lose focus as MS is saying AVG isn't turned on. (It's not?) 4. Hit start again to get a browser 4a. Lose focus again as AVG says it's not working. 5. Press start to start a browser. 5a. Lose focus as the UPS monitoring tool adversises that it's HERE! PRESENT! ACCOUNTED FOR! 6. Press Start to get a browser. 6a. Lose focus AGAIN as MS spyware gives me a status update. 7. go over to the iBook, it doesn't Constantly Interrupt Your Train of Thought At Every Opportunity!
That's like closing the barndoor after the barn's burned down!
Membership cards linked to multiple casinos, every square inch of every building under surveliance, and data mineing the likes of which the G'uvment can't compete with. Cashless video games that print out your winnings on a barcoded slip of paper...
If this has you concerned, RFID in your chips is the _least_ of your problems.
That's a non starter. If the Military turns off GPS, they're in the dark too. I can see spot based scrambling, but I cannot see flat turning it off world wide. It's grown too big for that.
My last desktop had to be built twice. Once with a good motherboard, good ram, good processor and Cheap case, the second time with a much better enclosure.
If that case and PS is $45, just HOW MUCH money do you think they're devoting to clean power?
On a more positive note, the new system is dam-near silent as the better case had a large slow moving variable speed fan controlled by the better PS.
$3200 spent in a snort bootcamp made the need to buy a $120,000 IDS box moot.
We were reviewing everal six-figure pieces of equipment and found the same thing - we knew they saw traffic they didn't like, but we didn't know WHY.
Now that everybody uses snort rules, the training is still helpful to show you WHAT you're seeing and IF it's truly bad or just another false positive.
FWIW, why get the snort stuff one vendor removed? Just go straight to the source.
Good God, are peoples lives so empty and devoid of meaning these days that they'll attempt to fill it with someone elses empty and devoid rambling on their own empty and devoid lives?
spent a shor tperiod of time using VirtualPC on my iBook (part of our Select program, so the experiment didn't really cost any money)
I nuked the XP partition after finding an alternative to Frontpage (NVU - not too bad!), and I nuked the gentoo, debian and Fedora Core partitions after discovering Fink.
Really, life's a lot easier staying in OSX, I've got snort and ethereal and nmap/nmapfe and it's all _native_
I expect when the web/mail server goes (wallmart $200 special) it'll be replaced with a Mini poste haste.
Really the WHOLE point of having a real OS is that the interactive stuff is interactive and the batch stuff happens when you're not lookin'...
The MacMini will NOT make a good Doom3 machine. For interactive stuff (even, gasp, light video editing!) it's fine the way it is. For long term stuff (DVD encoding), background the app and do something else (even at the same time!) Who cares if it takes 25 minutes instead of 20 minutes?
Generally, 'make DVD' is the last thing I do befor e I go to bed...it's always done by morning.
If you wanted the last oomph of power, you shouldn't have bought apple's cheapest box!
I've seen _dozens_ of live database queries to fill a 'State' dropdown on a website......when was the last time we ratified a new state?
I can't help but feel a lot of 'live instant all the time' sites would be a lot more efficient if it was 4 database calls a day, rather than Every Single Time Slashdot Hits Their Site.
Well yeah, but if you run cat 5 10/100/1000 to the room you're interested in, you'll get NO static...and can use the shorter cheap cables for the speakers.
Then you're not limited to the number of channels equalling the number of wires you've run to the far end of the house.
Further, if you pay $10 for the cheap wire and $100 for the expensive wire, would adequate wire cost $20 or $80?
You had me all the way up to Monster Cable. [Shudder] You're falling for a lot of marketing hype.
I've got a hybrid house with wireless iTunes going to the kids' iMac upstairs, the Wired Xbox playing audio in the family room (cat 5 to the xbox, optical from there to the home theatre). You do NOT want to pipe video over 802.11g. You can do it, but if the main living spaces can be wired, leave the wireless bandwidth for better uses. The 'College Audiophile stereo' is hooked up to the music server in my office.
Any other music needs (garage) are handled by my iPod and an iTrip.
Until he starts syncing his phone and dragging the mouse at the same time.
I'll keep the wire for the speakers...as long as they need ANOTHER wire for power, it's not that big a deal.
The bluetooth connection is primarily for removing the wires to the keyboard and mouse. It'll also connect to things like phones, PDAs and speakers, but I don't think that's the primary plan here. IT's pretty crummy as a networking inteface as it's capped out about about 1 MBps.
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Only part of your college education is to 'learn you stuff'. The other part is to expose you to crap you DON'T like...you know, kind of like the rest of life. The fact that someone has a BS in something means they're CAPABLE of learning, not that they've necessarily learned what they need for a job.
I can't say that I've ever actually applied my BS in Civil Engineering. But it DID get me in the door at a job that required general knowledge of how to solve problems. CE was BORING, but it did mean my first job out of college made $10k more than my MAX salary would have been without the paper.
Wife of a geek. :P
Geeks download geek stuff first. Everyone else will do it when it's _easy_.
I still can't believe you didn't know Starbuck was singular.
Check to see if your antenna is fully seated. I had to use a surprising amount of force to seat the antenna into my airport extreme card in my ibook.
Outlook Express? Still free.
IE? free.
Messenger? Free.
My first reaction was negative...but upon further thought, a per mile tax would be the most fair way to PAY for that resource you're using.
What, did you think the road you drove to work on just showed up one morning?
This is just a transfer of the existing tax in a way it can't be avoided. Paying less tax because you get better gas mileage doesn't pay to maintain the infrastructure. Sooner or later you've gotta pay to play.
I wake up to 'your machine failed to boot into normal mode...try again?' Spend 20 minutes looking at the 6 updates, remove two to no affect, remove AVG and have the system come back, only to have microsoft YELL "YOU MAY NOT BE SAFE! I CAN'T FIND A VIRUS SCANNER!"
Uh, no shit?
I don't know _who_ you're helping Microsoft, but you're sure not helping me.
Smith? Is that You?!?
(or Elrond, I can't keep you two straight)
What percentage of your user experience do you spend 'setting it right'? I don't WANT to spend 20% of my computer time telling my computer how to do this stuff. I USED to do that, I no longer wish to.
(This is not a rant, merely a description of what happened to me receintly:)
1. reboot computer - It'd hung running something the rhymes with Titborrent.
2. Login prompt -log in
3. Get a start button, click on it to start a browser
3a. lose focus as MS is saying AVG isn't turned on. (It's not?)
4. Hit start again to get a browser
4a. Lose focus again as AVG says it's not working.
5. Press start to start a browser.
5a. Lose focus as the UPS monitoring tool adversises that it's HERE! PRESENT! ACCOUNTED FOR!
6. Press Start to get a browser.
6a. Lose focus AGAIN as MS spyware gives me a status update.
7. go over to the iBook, it doesn't Constantly Interrupt Your Train of Thought At Every Opportunity!
That's like closing the barndoor after the barn's burned down!
Membership cards linked to multiple casinos, every square inch of every building under surveliance, and data mineing the likes of which the G'uvment can't compete with. Cashless video games that print out your winnings on a barcoded slip of paper...
If this has you concerned, RFID in your chips is the _least_ of your problems.
That's a non starter. If the Military turns off GPS, they're in the dark too. I can see spot based scrambling, but I cannot see flat turning it off world wide. It's grown too big for that.
My last desktop had to be built twice. Once with a good motherboard, good ram, good processor and Cheap case, the second time with a much better enclosure.
If that case and PS is $45, just HOW MUCH money do you think they're devoting to clean power?
On a more positive note, the new system is dam-near silent as the better case had a large slow moving variable speed fan controlled by the better PS.
$3200 spent in a snort bootcamp made the need to buy a $120,000 IDS box moot.
We were reviewing everal six-figure pieces of equipment and found the same thing - we knew they saw traffic they didn't like, but we didn't know WHY.
Now that everybody uses snort rules, the training is still helpful to show you WHAT you're seeing and IF it's truly bad or just another false positive.
FWIW, why get the snort stuff one vendor removed? Just go straight to the source.
Sounds like Reality TV.
spent a shor tperiod of time using VirtualPC on my iBook (part of our Select program, so the experiment didn't really cost any money)
I nuked the XP partition after finding an alternative to Frontpage (NVU - not too bad!), and I nuked the gentoo, debian and Fedora Core partitions after discovering Fink.
Really, life's a lot easier staying in OSX, I've got snort and ethereal and nmap/nmapfe and it's all _native_
I expect when the web/mail server goes (wallmart $200 special) it'll be replaced with a Mini poste haste.
Really the WHOLE point of having a real OS is that the interactive stuff is interactive and the batch stuff happens when you're not lookin'...
The MacMini will NOT make a good Doom3 machine. For interactive stuff (even, gasp, light video editing!) it's fine the way it is. For long term stuff (DVD encoding), background the app and do something else (even at the same time!) Who cares if it takes 25 minutes instead of 20 minutes?
Generally, 'make DVD' is the last thing I do befor e I go to bed...it's always done by morning.
If you wanted the last oomph of power, you shouldn't have bought apple's cheapest box!
I've seen _dozens_ of live database queries to fill a 'State' dropdown on a website... ...when was the last time we ratified a new state?
I can't help but feel a lot of 'live instant all the time' sites would be a lot more efficient if it was 4 database calls a day, rather than Every Single Time Slashdot Hits Their Site.
Well yeah, but if you run cat 5 10/100/1000 to the room you're interested in, you'll get NO static...and can use the shorter cheap cables for the speakers.
Then you're not limited to the number of channels equalling the number of wires you've run to the far end of the house.
Further, if you pay $10 for the cheap wire and $100 for the expensive wire, would adequate wire cost $20 or $80?
You had me all the way up to Monster Cable. [Shudder] You're falling for a lot of marketing hype.
I've got a hybrid house with wireless iTunes going to the kids' iMac upstairs, the Wired Xbox playing audio in the family room (cat 5 to the xbox, optical from there to the home theatre). You do NOT want to pipe video over 802.11g. You can do it, but if the main living spaces can be wired, leave the wireless bandwidth for better uses. The 'College Audiophile stereo' is hooked up to the music server in my office.
Any other music needs (garage) are handled by my iPod and an iTrip.
Until he starts syncing his phone and dragging the mouse at the same time. I'll keep the wire for the speakers...as long as they need ANOTHER wire for power, it's not that big a deal.
The bluetooth connection is primarily for removing the wires to the keyboard and mouse. It'll also connect to things like phones, PDAs and speakers, but I don't think that's the primary plan here. IT's pretty crummy as a networking inteface as it's capped out about about 1 MBps.
EEEEEEAAAARRRRRR WOOOOOORRRRRRMMMMM! /me: Goes off singing 'Who let the Dogs out?'
It _isn't_ the commercial.
But you alreay know that by now, don'cha?